According to Bill Nichols, The expository mode of documentary film making “rel[ies] heavily on an informing logic carried by the spoken word” and “addresses the viewer directly to…propose a perspective or advance an argument.” In expository documentaries the information being … Continue reading
Lauren Documentary Theory Final For my final documentary assignment I have made a short documentary implementing both the autobiographical mode and the poetic mode of film making. For this documentary project, I have created an abstract retelling of my … Continue reading
Anthropological or ethnographic documentaries are a type of visual anthropology in film making. According to an article by Clifford Geertz, anthropology is the study of human groups in a society. This mode of documentary “does not explain everything…but it still … Continue reading
Canadian actress and director Sarah Polley has managed to create a diverse and riveting place within the film industry in the past 20 years. Although her claim to fame has been through narrative television and film, her latest directorial venture … Continue reading
Time of the Month- Reflexive Doc Photos The Reflexive mode is an interesting style of documentary film making because it challenges the assumptions of what documentary film making is. Typically, audiences will describe documentaries as films that tell the … Continue reading
The participatory and reflexive modes of documentary are extremely similar on the surface but differ greatly in their execution. Many people, myself included, find it hard to differentiate between the two without closer examination. The participatory mode of documentary filmmaking … Continue reading
Doc mode activity 1: Observational According to Bill Nichols there are six modes of documentary film making: Expository, Poetic, Observational, Participatory, Performative, And Reflexive. Observational documentaries are exemplified by the filmmaker acting as an invisible object recording the things around … Continue reading
The genre of film that dominated production during World War II was short documentaries called Bugle-call films. These bugler films were so named because they represented a kind of call to arms and rallied support. Bugles are a brass instrument … Continue reading
One of the aspects that I find the most interesting about documentaries is that although it is oftentimes seen as objective truth or reality, this is not necessarily the case. Documentaries breed powerful responses in many cases because of the … Continue reading
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